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Psych 100 Final Exam Questions And Correct Answers Latest Version
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Psych 100 Final Exam Questions AndCorrect Answers Latest Version
Abnormal Behavior/Mental Disorder ANS✔✔ actions, thoughts and feelings
that are outside of cultural norms, cause emotional distress, cause
dysfunction in living, are dangerous to self or others
The DSM ANS✔✔ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
medical model, describes symptoms and typical age of onset or other
characteristic of the disorder
Problems with DSM ANS✔✔ over diagnosis, labeling, serious problems vs
normal problems, subjective nature of determining a disorder
Diathesis Stress Model ANS✔✔ biological factors (genetics, brain, chemistry,
and others) that are paired with environmental stressors to create a
psychological disorder
Insanity ANS✔✔ a LEGAL term, not a medical term or diagnosis
Insanity's three different meanings ANS✔✔ a persons ability to tell right from
wrong, not guilty by reason of insanity, a person's ability understand the
legal proceedings, competency to stand trial (mentally retarded) whether the
person is a direct danger to self or others, involuntary commitment to a
mental hospital
Anxiety Disorders ANS✔✔ excessive levels of negative emotions, such as
nervousness, tension, worry, fright and anxiety
,phobias ANS✔✔ an intense, irrational fear of anything
specific phobia ANS✔✔ a fear of one specific thing
social phobia or social anxiety disorder ANS✔✔ a fear of social interactions,
particularly those with strangers or those in which the person might be
viewed negatively
agoraphobia ANS✔✔ a fear of leaving one's home
generalized anxiety disorder ANS✔✔ a vague, uneasy sense of general
tension and apprehension that lasts for years
panic disorder ANS✔✔ a pattern of anxiety in which long periods of calm are
broken by intensely uncomfortable attacks of anxiety (panic attack, anxiety
attack)
panic attacks ANS✔✔ involve sudden changes in respiration, heart beat,
blood pressure, and a feeling of intense fear of dying or fear that of going
crazy, 5% women, 2% men, but 12% have experienced it
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ANS✔✔ experiencing anxiety,
irritability, upsetting memories, dreams, and realistic flashbacks of a
traumatic event
symptoms of PTSD ANS✔✔ extreme avoidance of things that remind them of
event, associated with war but can be anything traumatic
,obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) ANS✔✔ involves obsessions, intense
anxiety provoking thoughts, and or compulsions, irresistible urges to engage
in specific irrational behaviors
example of OCD ANS✔✔ intrusive thoughts about germs leads to compulsive
hand washing
dissociative disorders ANS✔✔ rare conditions involving sudden cognitive
changes, such as change in memory, perception or identity
depersonalization/dissociation ANS✔✔ feeling of unreal or out of your body,
feeling of head floating, hands enlarged
dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality ANS✔✔ where an
individual appears to shift abruptly and repeatedly from one personality to
another, may be caused by severe child abuse
major depression ANS✔✔ characterized by episodes of deep unhappiness,
loss of interest in life, and other symptoms, mood shifts downward, episodic
meaning symptoms are experienced for a period of time and then dissipate
mood disorders ANS✔✔ psychological disorders involving depression and or
abnormal elation
cognitive factors in depression ANS✔✔ Aaron Beck believe that our
thoughts/cognitions are an important factor in emotional problems, our
beliefs about ourselves and our relationships make us more or less
vulnerable to depression, negative vs positive thoughts
, example of major depression ANS✔✔ failing test internally would be its all
my fault, externally would be my professor sucks, stable would be I was born
stupid, global wold be I'll fail all of my classes
post partum depression ANS✔✔ episodes of major depression that affect
women after the birth of a child
seasonal affective disorder ANS✔✔ episode of depression that only occurs in
winter months
bipolar affective disorder ANS✔✔ periods of mania that alternate with
periods of severe depression
mania ANS✔✔ a disturbance in mood in which the individual experiences a
euphoria characterized by unrealistic optimism and heightened sensory
pleasures, dangerous because it leads to risky behavior
psychotic disorders ANS✔✔ psychological disorders characterized by
becoming out of touch with reality
schizophrenia ANS✔✔ disorder involving severe cognitive disturbance and
disorganization of thought, makes normal living impossible, 1% of population
of men and woman
characteristics of schizophrenia ANS✔✔ Delusions, Hallucinations,
Disorganized thinking, emotions and behavior including fragmented
thoughts, incoherent speech, inappropriate behavior, and flat emotions
except for anger
delusions ANS✔✔ distorted or bizarre beliefs that have no basis in reality
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